Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-14

| Ing, untll the children are veXed Dey0nC
bounds and growl in the sleeve, and pout
and rebel, and avow within themselve.
that in after days they will retaliate fol
the cruelties practiced. Many a home ha:
become as full of dispute as was the home
of John OGroat, who built his house Al
the most northerly point in Great Britain
and tradition says that the house had eight
windows, and eight doors, and a table o.
eight sides, because he had eight children
and the only way to keep them out of bit
ter quarrel was to have separate appoint
pointment for each one of them.
That child's nature is too delicate to be
worked upon by sledge-hammer, and
gouge, and pile-driver. Such fierce lash
ing, instead of
BREAKING THE HIGH METTLE
to bit and trace, will make it dash off the
more uncomfortable. Many seem to think
that children are hax-not fit for use till
they have been hetcheled and swlngled
Some one talking to child said: 81 won
der what makes that tree out there sC
crooked" The child replied: ~ suppose
it was trod Oh when it was young" In
some families all the discipline is concen
tired upon one child's head. If anything
is done wrong, the supposition is thai
George did it He broke the latch. Ht
left open the gate. He hacked the baunis.
ters. He whitfield sticks on the carpets
And George shall be the scapegoat for all
domestic misunderstandings and suspi
cions If things get wrong in the culi
nary department, in comes the mother and
says, angrily: Where is George?' If bust
hess matters are Perplexing at the store, il
comes the father at night and says, an
grily: Where is George" In many 8
household there is such one singled out
for suspician and castigation. All tn,
sweet flowers of his soul blasted under
this perpetual northeast storm, he curses
the day in which he was born Safer the
child in an ark of bulrushes on the Nile
among crocodile5, than in an elegant man,
sion, amid such domestic gorgons. A
mother was passing along the street on,
day, and came up TO her little child, who
did not see her approach, and her chilG
was saying to her playmate: "You good
for-hothing little scamp, you come right
into the house this minute or will beat
you till the skin comes off," The mother
broke in, saying: why, Lizzie, am sur
prised to hear you talk like that to any
one! !" 'Oh, ;" said the child, 81 was only
playing, and ne is my little boy, and an
scOlding him, as you did me this morning. ,
Children are apt to be echoes of their par
ents
Safer is Bethlehem maDger among
cattle and camels with gentle Mary tc
watch the little innocent than the
MOST EXTRAvAGANT NURSERY
over which Gods star of peace never stood
The trapper eXtinguishes the fire on the
prairie by fighting fire with fire, but you
cannot, with the fire of your own dispo,
sitiOn, put ont the fire of a child's dispo
sition.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme
and rule children by two great leniency.
The surgeon is not unkind because not.
withstanding the resistance of his patient
he goes straight on with firm hand and
unfaltering heart to take off the gangrene.
Nor is the parent less affectionate and
faithful because, Notwithstanding all VIC,
lent remonstrance on the part Of the child
he with the tirmest discipline advances to
the cutting Off of its evil inclnations.
The Bible says: "ChaSten thy son
while there is hope, and let not
thy soul spare for his crying
Childish rage unchecked will, after q
while, become hurricane. Childish
petulance will grow up into misanthropy
Childish rebellion will develop into The
lawlessness of riot and sedition. If you
would ruin the child, dance TO his every
caprice and stuff him with confectionery.
Before you are aware of it that boy Of six
years will 60 down the street, q cigar in his
mouth and ready on any corner with his
comrades to compare pugilistic attain
ments. The parent who allows the child
to grow up without ever having learned
the great duty of obedience and submis.
sion has prepared cup OF burning gall for
his own lips and appalling destruction for
his descendant. Remember Eli and his
two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in the training
Of children is laying ont of theory and
following it without arranging it to var
ieties of disposition. In every family you
will
FIND SIhlhlNt Dir FERENtES
of temperament. This child is too timid,
and that too bold, and this too misery,
and that too wakeful this too inactive,
and that too boisterous. Now, tie farmer
who shOuld plant corn and wheat and tur
nips in lust the same way, then put them
through one hopper and grind them in the
came mill, would not be 80 much Of fool
ha, 70 hn oh - a
ciplne and educate all their children in
the same manner. IL needs skillfu
hand TO adjust these checks and balances
The rigidity Of government which is nee.
essary to hold in this impetuous nature
would utterly crush that fexile disposi-
ton, while the gentle reproof that would
suffice for the latter would, when used on
the former, be like attempting TO hold a
champiDg Bucephalus with reins of gossa-
mer God gives MS in the disposition of
each child hint as to how we ought to
train him, and, as God in the mental struc-
ture of our children indicates what mode OF
training is the best He also indicates in
the disposition their future occupation
Do not write down that child as dull be-
cause it may not be as brilliant as your
other children or those Of your neighbor.
Some Of the mightiest men and women OF
the centuries had q stupid childhood
Thomas Aquinas was called at school "the
dumb OK, ;" but aiterward demonstrated his
sanctifed genius and was called "the angel
Of schools" and ''the eagle Of Brittany" 1"
Kindness and patience with child Will
conquer almost anything, aud they are
virtues 50. Christiike that tbeyhre inspiring
to look at John Wesley's kiss of child
on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce
from a prohigate into flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the training
of children is
THE OSE-sIDED DEVELOPMENT
Of either the physical intellectual or moral
nature at the expense OF the Others. Those,
for inst nee, greatly mistake who, while
they are faithful in the intellectual and
moral culture OF children, forget the physi-
cal.
Just as great is the wrong done when
the mind is cultivated and the heart
neglected. The youth Of this day are sell
dom denied any scholarly attainments.
Our schools and seminaries are ever grow
ing in efficiency, and the students are CON
Quoted through all the realms Of philoso-
ply, and art, and language, and mathe-